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Landmark deal broadens collab
between leading mobile carriers
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T&T and Vodafone Business will
open up access to their respective
NB-IoT networks to make it
easier for customers to create massive IoT
deployments that work across parts of
Europe and the US.
The inter-carrier roaming arrangement
creates the largest NB-IoT footprint in
the world. It will include the country-wide
NB-IoT network for AT&T in the US and the
Vodafone networks in Spain, Germany, Italy,
UK and the Netherlands. It will be available
to customers by the end of 2019.
NB-IoT is a low-power wide-area network
designed specifically for IoT devices
that require long battery life, high-signal
penetration and low data volumes.
simplified deployments to help scale their IoT
plans across the US and Europe.”
This collaboration builds on the previous
announcement in February that AT&T
and Vodafone Business are offering LTE-M
roaming across their respective networks in
the US and the Netherlands.
Both carriers are committed to expanding
their NB-IoT and LTE-M roaming footprints
globally to put LPWA on a similar global
footprint to 4G. NB-IoT and LTE-M are
also expected to be included in the global
standards for 5G massive IoT.
IoT services help customers operate more
efficiently, save energy and reduce their GHG
emissions. In 2018, Vodafone’s customers
THE INTER-
CARRIER ROAMING
ARRANGEMENT
CREATES THE
LARGEST NB-IOT
FOOTPRINT IN
THE WORLD.
saved 2.9 tonnes of CO2e (carbon dioxide
equivalent) for every tonne it generated in its
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This network arrangement enables
companies to take advantage of the unique
network features of NB-IoT, simplifying
their supply chain and facilitating seamless
operations across multiple networks with a
single highly secure SIM.
“Extending our collaboration with AT&T to
offer NB-IoT roaming helps our customers
to easily deploy their connected devices
between the US and Europe,” said Vinod
Kumar, CEO, Vodafone Business. “We want
to make technology adoption simpler for
our customers to help them achieve their
business outcomes and by pushing forward
the standards and linking up our IoT network
with AT&T’s, we’re doing just that.”
“For the IoT to live up to its promise, it must
be global,” said Chris Penrose, Senior Vice
President of Advanced Mobility and Enterprise
Solutions, AT&T. “More and more of our
enterprise customers are launching IoT
applications across multiple countries. Working
with Vodafone we can offer our customers
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